Seafinch

The beauty of these decks is that they are good from the start so you can take as long as you like to do it, I've not rewired that particular Thorens arm but rewiring any arm is the same in principle in that you use the old cable to pull the new through, you do it slowly and methodically and employ as much patience as you can muster, oh and be careful of the black ground cable as you are not replacing that and it's easy to break it's connection inside the arm.
 
The suspension is easy to set up and is identical in principle to a Linn, Ariston, AR etc etc. so find the early Linn set up manual on line and follow that but you shouldn't need to change it if it's sitting level or you change the arm. You can do the bounce test in that if you push down on the spindle then let go it should come back up as flat as it went down, if it wobbles about as it comes back up or you feel more resistance in one area as it goes down then you might need to look at the isolators at the top or bottom of the springs but all that's pretty obvious when you get the base plate off.
 
In terms of musicality to my ears with everything else equal a good suspended sub-chassis turntable wipes the floor with any un-suspended turntable no matter how expensive or how good it's supposed to be and yours can be a very very good suspended table, I also find it funny how many people I've spoken to who buy a brand new Project or similar and replace it with a good vintage table and say how much better it is, there's nothing new in hifi and I've never understood how they sell so many of these new tables when there are so many much better old tables out there for less money. Each to their own I suppose.

No offense to any of the people think this thread is "stupid", but you don't have to read it.
 
In the first post I mentioned that this is based on opinion. I listen to music on a pretty revealing system so really noisy pressings, or flat/boring pressings are not worth listening to for me. This is no ways meant to be the Bible in regards to bad pressings, just people posting opinions and helpful info.
 
I just bought the new Hayden record, Hey Love, and it's a bummer how noisy the pressing is, not pops and crackles, but full on tearing sound that makes it near unlistenable. I'm hoping it's just my copy, but I think it's worth mentioning. 
 
Also, I'll be updating the list soon, had a hectic holiday weekend so I'm catching up on some stuff. 

Disintegration Loops and Melancholia are my favorites.

Done

I'd love to have a running list of bad/disappointing pressings to help me avoid buying stuff that will never get any play. I'll keep the first post updated. Keep in mind, this is all based people's opinions - ears and gear may vary.
 
30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver // Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of // Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat  La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) 30 Seconds to Mars // A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. AFI - The Art of Drowning // bad skip during Days of the Phoenix Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (Matador reissue from 2011 OLE 296-1) Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of - Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion // pressing defect during Saviour that causes it to skip/loop. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat  La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie Box Set  (1st US Pressing )(Fixed on 2nd pressing) Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) Tame Impala - Lonerism (2014 Repress) // Very noisy. That Pianos Become The Teeth - Close RSD 7" // unbearable amount of noise, destroying two excellent tracks. The Antlers - Hospice // Distorted, flat, unlistenable The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis (OG Deep Elm Pressing) The Cure - Seventeen Seconds // Despite being a MOV release, it doesn't sound good, "A Forest" hisses through) The Fugees - The Score // Quiet and noisy. Very noisy. And expensive which makes it worse. The Menzinger's - OTIP The Wonder Years - Greatest Generation (1st Pressing) The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (single LP press) Thursday - War All The Time (grey with smoke/marble) Tigers Jaw - S/T (5th press | orange/white starburst) Title Fight - Hyperview (Grey) Turbo Fruits - Echo Kid // Major skips across both sides Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (1st Pressing) Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (First Press) Volcano Choir - Repave (Clear) Warpaint - The Fool // This one isn't terrible, but it's still disappointing that such a lush and nuanced album sounds so... flat. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright // sounds like someone threw a blanket over my speakers Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary  

Victory probably listens to test presses on a Crosley

Music On Vinyl re-pressed Worship and Tribute, this version sounds much better. The packaging has been improved as well.

I'd love to have a running list of bad/disappointing pressings to help me avoid buying stuff that will never get any play. I'll keep the first post updated. Keep in mind, this is all based people's opinions - ears and gear may vary.
 
30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver // Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of // Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat  La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) 30 Seconds to Mars // A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. AFI - The Art of Drowning // bad skip during Days of the Phoenix Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (Matador reissue from 2011 OLE 296-1) Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of - Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion // pressing defect during Saviour that causes it to skip/loop. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat  La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie Box Set  (1st US Pressing )(Fixed on 2nd pressing) Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) Tame Impala - Lonerism (2014 Repress) // Very noisy. That Pianos Become The Teeth - Close RSD 7" // unbearable amount of noise, destroying two excellent tracks. The Antlers - Hospice // Distorted, flat, unlistenable The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis (OG Deep Elm Pressing) The Cure - Seventeen Seconds // Despite being a MOV release, it doesn't sound good, "A Forest" hisses through) The Fugees - The Score // Quiet and noisy. Very noisy. And expensive which makes it worse. The Menzinger's - OTIP The Wonder Years - Greatest Generation (1st Pressing) The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (single LP press) Thursday - War All The Time (grey with smoke/marble) Tigers Jaw - S/T (5th press | orange/white starburst) Title Fight - Hyperview (Grey) Turbo Fruits - Echo Kid // Major skips across both sides Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (1st Pressing) Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (First Press) Volcano Choir - Repave (Clear) Warpaint - The Fool // This one isn't terrible, but it's still disappointing that such a lush and nuanced album sounds so... flat. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright // sounds like someone threw a blanket over my speakers Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary  

I'd love to have a running list of bad/disappointing pressings to help me avoid buying stuff that will never get any play. I'll keep the first post updated. Keep in mind, this is all based people's opinions - ears and gear may vary.
 
30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver // Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of // Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat  La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) 30 Seconds to Mars // A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. AFI - The Art of Drowning // bad skip during Days of the Phoenix Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (Matador reissue from 2011 OLE 296-1) Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of - Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion // pressing defect during Saviour that causes it to skip/loop. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat  La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie Box Set  (1st US Pressing )(Fixed on 2nd pressing) Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) Tame Impala - Lonerism (2014 Repress) // Very noisy. That Pianos Become The Teeth - Close RSD 7" // unbearable amount of noise, destroying two excellent tracks. The Antlers - Hospice // Distorted, flat, unlistenable The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis (OG Deep Elm Pressing) The Cure - Seventeen Seconds // Despite being a MOV release, it doesn't sound good, "A Forest" hisses through) The Fugees - The Score // Quiet and noisy. Very noisy. And expensive which makes it worse. The Menzinger's - OTIP The Wonder Years - Greatest Generation (1st Pressing) The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (single LP press) Thursday - War All The Time (grey with smoke/marble) Tigers Jaw - S/T (5th press | orange/white starburst) Title Fight - Hyperview (Grey) Turbo Fruits - Echo Kid // Major skips across both sides Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (1st Pressing) Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (First Press) Volcano Choir - Repave (Clear) Warpaint - The Fool // This one isn't terrible, but it's still disappointing that such a lush and nuanced album sounds so... flat. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright // sounds like someone threw a blanket over my speakers Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary  

The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (single LP press)
Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter)
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue)
 
off the top of my head

Setup is finally complete.


Pro-ject RPM1 Carbon with 2M Blue
Advance Acoustic x-i120 Amplifier
Quadral Platinum M30 Speakers

Yes. Built in.

Been working on this garage conversion for a few months and it's finally done (for the most part). My setup in here is...
 
Clearaudio Concept w/ Clearaudio Artist V2 Cartridge
Graham Slee Era Gold V Phono
Marantz PM6005 Integrated
EPOS Epic 2 Speakers (these are being sent back, due to a funny rattle in one of them - thinking I'm going to go with the Wharfedale Denton's as they're sold out of the Epic 2's) 
 

 

180g black. I loved how they packaged it, silly trinkets in the shipping box. Some minor corner dings. Vinyl is nice and heavy. Some initial dust present. Did a light cleaning. I'm getting general surface noise. Very dynamic music, great tones, I think it is extremely well balanced. Overall, loving it. Interested in other opinions.

Hi everyone 

I discovered this little gem earlier. Could be a good tool to practice on the go, don't you think? 

 

All of your posts seem to be strangely vague or open to interpretation.  They're all a quarter-thought away from making sense. 
 
I'm not sure whether you are a real person trying to convey an idea, or if you are some sort of bot stringing together associated words into sentence form.

I can't think of a more noble reason to want a better job

http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/109746-now-marriages-salome-292015-clear-vinyl-sargent-house/?hl=salome
 
Kitsune was more shoegazey (with some psych, postrock, & several other genres in there) to me than Salome.  
 
Love everything ERR has been involved in. Her vocals on Salome seem to hearken back to The Nocturnes: 'A Year Of Spring' .
My personal favorite is Aokigahara which is a dreamy folk-gaze album - and she uses about 5 different vocal styles on that one, accompanied by male vocals on many tracks.  My most treasured gem that no one wants to talk about.

Not sure if this has been posted already, but he's an even bigger tool bag than we all thought...
 
Listen to this Original music by Nick Alt.
 
and...
 
some more
 
Enjoy.

Hey guys, they have one here at my local store listed for 69.99. I already got shipping confirmation on my bullmoose copy. I'll be here for the next 15 minutes if you want it, PM me. $80 PPD

Glad I could help dude, #139 coming your way!

Not sure if this has been posted already, but he's an even bigger tool bag than we all thought...
 
Listen to this Original music by Nick Alt.
 
and...
 
some more
 
Enjoy.

Not sure if this has been posted already, but he's an even bigger tool bag than we all thought...
 
Listen to this Original music by Nick Alt.
 
and...
 
some more
 
Enjoy.

Not sure if this has been posted already, but he's an even bigger tool bag than we all thought...
 
Listen to this Original music by Nick Alt.
 
and...
 
some more
 
Enjoy.

Not sure if this has been posted already, but he's an even bigger tool bag than we all thought...
 
Listen to this Original music by Nick Alt.
 
and...
 
some more
 
Enjoy.